NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Missing Yacht Found. After breaking away from her mooring at Cornwallis on Christmas Eve, the 14th yacht Sea Nymph, owned by Mr. A.^ Ballard, of Seacliffe Road, Onehunga, was found on New Year's Eve a total wreck on the rocks about a mile outside the Manukau Heads, states the "New Zealand Herald." The yacht disappeared during the night in heavy weather and apparently drifted out of the harbour. Mr. Ballard, who is a member of the Manukau Yacht and Motor Boat Club, searched the harbour during the week without success. The boat was found outside the heads by a farmer whose property runs down to the water's edge. Mr. Ballard went out in a launch on New Year's Day to inspect the wreckage, but did not consider it worth salvaging. The yacht was raced by Mr. Ballard on the Manukau Harbour with some success. Nazi Hymn Sung. New Plymouth residents had an unusual experience on Sunday night, when for the first time in New Zealand the German national anthem and the hymn of the Nazi movement were sung in public at a concert given by cadets from the German barque Kommodore Johnsen, which is in port at New Plymouth, states a New Plymouth correspondent. With the right arm raised in the Nazi salute, 40 cadets from the barque stood to attention and sang "Deutschland Über Alles," followed by the hymn of the National Socialist regime, the "Horst Wessel" song. The large audience, who had just sung the British National Anthem, also stood to attention. Although most of the audience recognised the more familiar air of the German national anthem, few had ever heard the hymn of the Third Reich before.